It blows my mind to realize that Boy Culture is now eight years old. I can still remember the joy I felt when I figured out how to post, how to upload an image and how to embed a video. I remember every time a post blew up, bringing in hits and new viewers. I remember the longtime commenters, the trolls, the spam and the never-ending (and validating!) pitches and free tickets and photographers' snaps of half- or all-naked male models.

Shooting for my blog has never been a drag.

I've used Boy Culture to express myself, to help express others and to connect to people internationally.

I've also used it to show off my humor (both high and low), to flaunt my obsessions, to reality-test my sexual diversions and perversions, to laud the art I love, to lash out against the enemies of gay people and to broadcast my admiration for Madonna.

I want to thank you all for having read this blog over the years. It's a very hard thing to maintain, and it will not be maintained forever. But each time I get some positive (or even just meaningful) feedback, each time my posts are shared on social media, each time something I've written elicits a response, it keeps me going that much longer.

Madonna's stepmother was not impressed.

Thank you. Please enjoy my 100 favorite posts, please let me know if you're reading any old ones for the first time and are liking them and, most of all, please share this entire post far and wide to help get my work out there.

I've gotten way into lists. Way. You'll find more of my lists higher up on, uh, this particular list. But the ones that are just completely random go here because I worked my ass off on them, because I love them and because—judging from Quantcast data—you like 'em, too.

Star Magazine implying gay people aren't quite right? Not normal! This took off on several blogs and GLAAD got an apology from Trunzo over it. Some people think it's being "oversensitive," but Jesus...how much clearer is "Man to man" with a huge "NOT" (NORMAL) stamped over it?

Miley Cyrus's gig as the host and musical guest on SNL was undistinguished, judging from the highlights I caught, with the exception of her very funny send-up of the Republican Party. Cyrus was a credible Crazy-Eyes Bachmann and Taran Killam killed 'em as Speaker John Boehner.

I'd love to know who the shirtless snoozer is who awoke to found "Boehner" kissing his beautiful body, and I'd like to point out that side-ball is clearly visible from Killam if you watch the clip in HD...

Michele Bachmann is quitting, not running for Congress. She made this known in the most awkward, defensive, surreal video...ever. Instead of just throwing in the towel, she goes on and on about why she is quitting, trying to make it clear it wasn't because she was going to lose and wasn't because of the scandal swirling around her presidential campaign.

She also claims she is working "100-hour weeks." An example of her strangled speech:

"I will continue to work vehemently and robustly to fight back against what most in the other party want to do to transform our country into becoming, which would be a nation that our Founders would hardly even recognize today."